“One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.”
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Famous Djuna Barnes Quotes
“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”
Source: Nightwood
“For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.”
Source: Nightwood
“Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.”
Source: Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs
Source: Nightwood